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Messerschmitt KR 200 - Aircraft cockpit on three wheels
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Created on April 9, 2011
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Summary
The Messerschmitt cabin scooter was a child of the post-war era and combined the frugality typical of motorcycles with the comfort of a car. Over 52,000 Messerschmitt KR 175, KR 200/201 and TG 500 were produced.
This article contains the following chapters
- A highly talented designer builds a motorized tricycle
- Messerschmitt as a partner
- First successes in Germany and exports
- The improved second series
- The breakthrough with the KR 200
- World records make it the darling of the masses
- New ownership
- The high-flyer "Tiger"
- 52,000 scooters in 11 years
- Compact, light and efficient
- Unrestricted highway stability
- Tandem arrangement and low seating position
- High attention value and sympathy bonus
- Rare today and not cheap
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
This is how an airplane pilot must have felt in the past: Boarding from above, all-round view, glass cockpit descending over the passengers. Then take-off. Now, however, the airplane associations are over. What you hear when you turn the ignition key is the rattling of a single-cylinder, two-stroke engine with just under 200 cm3. And, of course, the vehicle does not take off, but stays firmly on the road. Even if it feels different. But let's first take a look back to the time after the Second World War. After the war, engineer Fritz Fend, like so many others, was faced with a new beginning. He calculated that many war invalids might need a means of transportation and began to build a tricycle, which he equipped with a small Victora engine of 38 cm3. The Fend Flitzer was born and was presented in 1948. Demand was soon so great that Fend's small business was bursting at the seams. A partner was needed.
Welcome to Zwischengas!
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